Jagose Orgasmology

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9752-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Next wave

In this long-awaited work, the queer theorist Annamarie Jagose demonstrates that attention to orgasm as an object of queer and feminist thought reveals much about gender, agency, history, and modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jagose, Annamarie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction. Orgasm and the Long Twentieth Century 1

1. About Time: Simultaneous Orgasm and Sexual Normalcy 40

2. Straight Woman / Gay Man: Orgasm and the Double Blind of Modern Sex 78

3. Behaviorism's Queer Trace: Sexuality and Orgasmic Reconditioning 106

4. Face Off: Artistic and Medico-Sexological Visualizations of Orgasm 135

5. Counterfeit Pleasures: Fake Orgasm and Queer Agency 175

Coda. Orgasm's End 207

Works Cited 217

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Annamarie Jagose is the author of Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence and of Queer Theory: An Introduction.